September 2009

Why I Don’t Food Blog

September 30, 2009

Behold the meat baby. No I didn’t come up with it but thanks anyhow. Amy recently e-mailed me, “Why don’t you ever blog about what you eat? I’d love to see pix!” Dear Amy,That may be the shortest reader question I have ever gotten. In honor of the occasion this will be the shortest answer I have ever written. First I would like to say that I have no problems with other people food blogging. There are lots of witty (Smoothie Girl Eats Too), pretty (Java Chick) and inspiring (Heather Eats Almond Butter) foodies out there. (In fact, I even [...]

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What To Watch on the Treadmill

September 28, 2009

If you get this via e-mail or RSS, click through to see The Evolution of Dance. If you’ve not seen it yet, funniest 6 minutes of your day, I guarantee it! On our honeymoon, my husband discovered something shocking about me – something he never saw coming. (And that folks, is officially the worst opening line to a post I’ve ever written!) No it was not a vestigial tail or third nipple. Rather, this is how we started our first day of wedded bliss together: Him: You ready to go?Me, eyes glued to the TV screen: Just a sec.Him: Wait, [...]

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Sports: Do You Play to Win?

September 28, 2009

Well that’s a bummer. The leaves changing color, the nip in the air, the never ending back-to-school nights with their ten-page supply lists are all signs of the season change, sure, but nothing announces the advent of fall in suburbia like the pitter-patter of little soccer cleats across a field. (That would be football for everyone outside the States. It was probably unnecessary to clarify that but I have one surprisingly dedicated reader in Singapore and I’ll be rather disappointed if I ever lose them.) Raise your hand if you played soccer as a kid. I imagine that includes everyone. [...]

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Confessions of a Pregnant Compulsive Exerciser

September 25, 2009

Yeah, this poster has a typo. Several actually. Kids these days. I have the feeling that eventually this will be one of those Turning Points in my life that I’ll talk about later with great insight. But living it thus far has felt anything but profound. Unless you mean profoundly depressing. Backstory: Wednesday morning I did Turbokick, per my usual. Halfway through the class, the little girls’ room called and I headed out. There was blood, people. A lot of blood. Which is never a good thing when you are pregnant, much less eight months pregnant. Trying not to panic, [...]

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Body Fat is Not Like the Limbo

September 24, 2009

Personal Trainer to Gym Buddy Allison and I: You wouldn’t believe it, this morning this guy had his wife in here to get her body fat measured. But get this – he said he was training her and wasn’t going to let up until she reached… five percent body fat! Allison and I: *B horror movie gasp* Was he kidding? PT: No, he was very serious. Me: What’s she at now? (Thinking perhaps she was a competitive body builder and he was the Ike to her Tina.) PT: 35% Plus, she’s 38 years old. He’s got her working out 3-4 [...]

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Blond Doll Takes Over the World!

September 23, 2009

Normal women are used to being made to feel inferior by fashion mags but now even the likes of First ladies Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni are getting the makeover treatment from the Japanese edition of Bazaar. So how does one improve upon two women already known for being gorgeous with an impeccable sense of style? You make them into a blond doll. Literally. In this bizarre piece (See what I did there? I’m awesome.), a big-eyed blond-haired couture-dressed doll takes the first ladies’ places in several iconic photographs. If this spread had come out in any of the western [...]

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Dealing With Anxiety Disorders

September 22, 2009

Incident: My three-year-old son was downstairs playing happily with his dinosaurs while I was upstairs playing happily with my ten piles of laundry in various states of clean. As I was folding (read: stuffing into drawers) my husband’s collection of 100 tech conference t-shirts, the thought suddenly occurred to me: What if my son got himself a snack, forgot how to chew properly and was silently choking to death just feet below me? My mommy heart leapt in panic and I leapt down the stairs – no mean feat for a woman eight months pregnant. He was fine and I [...]

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The Fallacy of Normalcy

September 21, 2009

Puerile. That would be the best word to describe the radio show I sometimes listen to in the a.m. Most mornings I’m very grown-up with my NPR and my unsweetened oatmeal but occasionally a girl needs some good Hollywood gossip – complete with a quiz where they tazer the person on the butt if they get the answer wrong – to go with her Cap’n Crunch. (You know what’s really awesome? Cap’n Crunch cooked in with Rice Krispie treats. Mmm… craving.) In addition to a self-deprecating lead male D.J. and a psychic who says things like, “I see an aura [...]

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Girls Gone Violent

September 18, 2009

Check out this snippet I uncovered in which a popular celebrity talks about arguing with their significant other: “I say, ‘You have to go and stop talking to me, because I’m going to kill you. I’m going to stab you with something, please leave.’ I’d never own a gun for that reason,” says [name redacted]. “I wouldn’t shoot to kill. But I would shoot them in the leg, for sure.” Who could it be? What if I told you it was a recorded phone conversation between Chris Brown and a buddy discussing the incident with Rihanna? Well, it isn’t. And [...]

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Bigger Breakfasts for Smaller Waistlines

September 17, 2009

Photo Credit: Natalie Dee Apparently September was Better Breakfast Month. Who knew? Just so you don’t get caught off guard, November is listed as the month for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness, National Novel Writing, Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness and National Homeless Youth. If you can write a novel about a homeless youth suffering from pancreatic cancer which gets misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s (wacky hijinks ensue!) then you’ll have all your bases covered. See, I’m good for something! Anyhow, not being idiots nor living under a rock, you all know by now that eating a hearty breakfast is one of the biggest health tips [...]

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